Beyond Road: Rethink the potential of ecosystem services of the arterial network in Rotterdam

Modern urban road systems often bring environmental problems and affect the quality of life of residents. The main roads in the south of Rotterdam face problems with lack of greenery, heat island effect and flash flooding. These problems have had a negative impact on the well-being of residents, and have also caused the road ecosystem to fail to...

From Line to Zone: Transforming the Miami River & Canal into Urban Landscape Infrastructure

The research context is based on the problematic situations of urban riparian area (Miami River & Canal). With research by design as the main method, the research aims to retransform the riparian area from an isolated line into a closely connected urban zone through designing the river & canal as urban landscape infrastructure and...

Keep calm and let the water come. Enabling water management plans for Southwest Dutch delta to give the nature more important position in order to strengthen area’s socio-economic vitality

“The global ecosystem is the source of all the material inputs feeding the economic subsystem” (Costanza, et al., 1997) and delta regions are the hotspots of such feeding ecosystem. Deltas have been one of the most nutritious and economy sustaining landscapes since the beginning of a human era. They provided food, water, connectivity, and even...